March, 1998 Updated, November 22, 2005
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It's Been A While
It's been a stressful past few weeks. I'll summarize the best I can.
After that romantic night, something happened. I, for some reason, starting using my head instead of my heart. And my head told me that for some reason I didn't have enough feelings for this guy, and if I let things continue, we'd both be disappointed. So I broke it off, and I felt like a complete jerk for doing so. He really is a nice, sweet and wonderful guy...
What the heck am I looking for? I don't expect perfection, yet when I find someone I look for flaws. Why do I do this? I'll never be happy and satisfied if I let this continue. Ugh.
OK so that sucked... but what came next sucked even more.
Last Monday night, my car got broken into. Not even a week after I got the damned thing, someone smashes the rear driver side window and takes off with over 60 of my CD's, my portable CD player, all the wires for playing it in my stereo, and my cellular phone. What a pain. :-/
So I had to get the window replaced, and then get it expensed at work. So I found a place that would do it for a reasonable price, and they came out and replaced the window the next day. I called my Credit Union to get an extended credit limit on my charge card and re-work a loan, but nothing happened in time, and now my credit card is over its limit. Why can't I win when it comes to money? ARRGH!
Three days later, the prick struck again, and hit the car parked next to me. That guy was out of town, so the car sat with a broken window for two full days. I sure am glad I was there the day it happened... I'd hate to have had snow, rain, whatever in my car when I discovered it!
So $150 later, I got my window replaced. And life resumed and it was forgotten about. But boy, I sure miss those CD's!!!!!!!
Hate Valentine's Day?
I did it. I placed a personal ad in the Chicago Reader. I never thought I'd do it, but I have been pleasantly surprised by both the responses and the quality of them. The guys seem pretty normal. I've gone on three dates already, and so far they've been nice. I'm just trying to see who else is out there, besides the guys I've met on AOL and IRC... not to mention the bars. After the first week I had 10 responses. It was published again this past Friday, so we'll see what kind of responses there will be.
The ad started "Hate Valentine's Day?", which explains the name of this segment. :-) I wrote it out around that time, and wasn't exactly in the mood for the holiday. I figured it was clever, and maybe it would elicit some responses. Happily, I have discovered that I'm not the only one that hates the day! :-)
Avoiding the Plague
Everyone's been sick lately. I've tried just about everything possible to NOT get sick. My sister was out for nearly a week last week, and my parents caught what she had and were both out for a week each. I didn't even go home last weekend so I could avoid it. But now I'm starting to feel bad... I had a headache all day and have had a congested cough. Not good signs. I hope it's just a little quickie cold. :-)
Well I don't know what else to tell, it's been sort of uneventful except for what I mentioned before. There've been other things that have happened, that honestly, I don't feel are necessary to mention. Honestly, I don't post EVERYTHING that happens in my life here. I just post the things that frustrate me or that I would like to talk about with someone. I figure any feedback is good feedback. And I hope to hear something from you out there if you have any. Til next time.
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Just Can't Win
So far, 1998 has royally sucked.
I did it again. My car got towed this past weekend. I don't need to go into the why's and hows, but it happened again, and if it happens one more time, my job may be in jeopardy. It's time for me to start learning how to use public transportation. I can't afford this anymore.
Between getting broken into, parking tickets and towings, it just IS NOT WORTH IT HAVING A CAR IN CHICAGO!
Old Flames
Remember the guy I met at Unabridged Bookstore back in September, just before I moved here? Click here for the story. Well guess who I ran into at Roscoes last Saturday? I couldn't believe my eyes. All at once I remembered how cute he was, and how much I enjoyed hanging around with him when he was here last. He said he was only in town for about 48 hours, and he was leaving early tomorrow, but wanted to go out and see if he could find me. Well he did. We hung out most of the night, but he had to leave at 1am so he could get ready to leave tomorrow. I was sad to see him leave already, but he said he'd be back again. I really hope so. He also said he wants to move here. I REALLY HOPE SO! :-) I could seriously date that guy. But, til then, it's E-mail all the way.
New Flames
Met a new guy on AOL (what else is new)- we connected pretty quickly. I thought he was cute, he thought I was cute, and we get along pretty well. We got together at his place and watched the Oscars together. It was a lot of fun! We ordered out and watched TV. Kinda different for a first "date" but it was fun regardless.
We then got together last night, and he came over to my place. I did the whole nine yards. I cleaned the entire apartment, (It was a disaster), and made dinner- Salad, pasta & sauce, and he supplied the dessert. It was pretty romantic, if I may say so myself. I even bought flowers. YIKES. It worked. We really enjoyed it, and everything was great. It was pretty damn romantic! Now hopefully this will actually go somewhere, so my efforts won't be for naught. But, even if it doesn't, I at least know that I can pull it off ;-)
Couldn't Escape It!
Yep. It caught up with me. I have the flu! My bones ached, I have a nasty cough, and my temp got as high as 100.8 today. Currently it's at about 99.3, so I'm hoping it was a quick spike, only to subside right away. We'll see. I say that a lot don't I? ;-)
OK that's all the exciting news I have to share. Aren't you glad you waited? LOL
Hope all is well for all of you-- later.
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